Chocolate sweets "Red October": assortment, composition, prices

Every Russian knows the chocolate products of the brand "Red October". The famous "Alenka", iris "Kis-kis", caramel "Cancer necks": our grandmothers knew all this.

Capital candy "Red October" is not in vain such popularity, because the history of production is 165 years old.

A little about the factory

In the distant 1851, the Prussian merchant and chocolate lover TF von Einem decided to try to establish business in the Russian Empire by opening a small chocolate-candy production.

Since 1867, the factory already exists in the directory of enterprises of the Russian Empire under the name "Einem. A partnership of the steam factory of chocolate, sweets and tea biscuits. " For five kopecks in silver from every pound sold cookies von Einem donated to charity. Since 1869, his companion is Julius Geiss, finally Russified a German from the Black Forest, in the lands of Baden-Württemberg, who led the factory in 1876 after the death of Theodor Ferdinand.

In 1917, the factory was nationalized, like everything in the country, but it did not stop the work, and in 1922 it became known as the "Red October". During the war only "Gvardeisky" and "Kola" chocolate was produced, but not the one to which everyone is accustomed, but Cola as the Polar region, the Kola Peninsula.

Most famous

The most delicious products in Russia are candies "Red October". Their composition, of course, varies. Chocolate is simple and with nuts, lots of types of caramel and waffles, various gingerbread and biscuits - all this is done according to its unique recipe.

Here, for example, candy brand "Alenka." Between the two waffle layers, crushed nuts with milk in fried sugar. Or "Alyonka cream-brule". The filling is dark, milky, with cocoa powder, and the top is filled with chocolate glaze.

Appeared and caramel "Alenka", although everyone is used to the fact that it's chocolate. The oval shape of the sweet kind and taste is very similar to an orange.

"Thunderbolt seal" is always a joke and was seriously called Iris "Kis-kis". Like a hundred years ago, they also stick to the teeth and remove poor-quality fillings. Despite this, the taste of these toffees has forever settled in people's minds. In the Soviet years, these sweets were in every house.

Sweets "Red October" produces a variety of products, including the product "Bear Muffin". Ordinary were waffle, but there was a novelty - a honey grill. Oblong candy, covered with chocolate glaze, and inside caramel with peanuts, hazelnuts and honey. Unusually, but insanely delicious!

Less famous, but no less delicious

Chocolate sweets "Red October" produces every day. "Triumph" is produced in three types: "classical", "latte" and "exotic".

"Classic" is sprinkled with coconut shavings and crumbles a little, but these are trifles. And in fact, is the wafer in the glaze, under which is hidden a very delicious filling.

"Latte" also crumbles, but not coconut, and sesame. Cream filling with a taste of bright chocolate latte indifferent will not leave. And the "exotic" all exotic is in pistachios. Sprinkled with almost no crumbling waffle crumb (because it is little on top, crumbs of this), has a filling of light green color and pistachio taste.

Of the "chemistry", by the way, the candy series is not so many components. The spiteful "E", which everyone has long been afraid of, is present in the form of the E-141 dye and E-476 flavor.

Sweets "Red October" also produces such as "Nut Grove". The pluses include relatively cheap, less than three hundred rubles, but there are few nuts, although there should be a lot if you believe the name. Well, cocoa butter is replaced with a powder, which also does not add flavor. By the ratio of price / quality is the best option. It is possible, and inexpensive.

Jelly Ruler

Sweets "Red October" also produces "Jelly", which have a whole series. With the taste of barberry, for example, covered with a dark chocolate glaze of good quality. The pronounced taste of barberry is sour to the measure, jelly itself is quite elastic. In general, very tasty sweets, if not for one "but": bust with "chemistry". Polyglycerin, also known as E-476, is banned in the Russian Federation, as it does not have a very good effect on the liver and kidneys. E-331 and E-102 are not particularly dangerous, whereas E-122 is a carcinogen, and very strong. So the buyer's health is in his hands.

There is also a marmalade in chocolate. In it, the chemistry is slightly less than in the above-described "barberry", and the taste is quite edible.

"South Night" from the same factory is known to many. A brown marmalade, covered with dark chocolate, which does not even crumble or crumble with a candy. In spite of the simple gray candy wrapper, the taste of these sweets is simply excellent. Yes, and the composition is quite acceptable, without excesses. Prices for "jelly" series vary around 180-220 rubles / kg.

Candy boxes

The most interesting of the "boxed" sweets is, undoubtedly, a set of sweets "Red October", which is called the "Tretyakov Gallery". The sweets themselves have condensed milk with sugar and vanilla (in the form of flavor), ayrish cream, cognac and apricot yogurt. In short, for every taste. Of the "chemistry" is only E-492. But the very charm of this set is that the box is an interesting gift. Guess from the name that is depicted on them? Correctly, images of paintings by great artists from the collection of the Tretyakov Gallery. There is such a gift from 250 rubles.

For connoisseurs, there are more interesting candies "Red October" handmade. Glazing and decor of these sweets are made by hand, due to which the price is astronomical. For example, a set of "Souvenir from Ryazan" from a dozen candies will cost approximately 600 rubles, while the "Deer" box, where candies are made by confectioners' hands, is already in 2500 rubles. For three sweets. No, there are budgetary conveyor options, the same famous "Russia Troika" for 200 "wooden", but after all, the general director does not give it, right?

The taste is excellent for the candies of the "Metropolitan"?

It would be desirable to separately disassemble the weighted candies "Capital" ("Red October"), the price of which reaches seven hundred rubles per kilogram. Probably, for this price we should expect a really delicious taste. But not everything is so simple.

Appearance, of course, elegant. Styled with the Soviet reality wrapper looks amazing, no doubt. In the shape of a rounded rectangle they are covered with dark chocolate glaze, to which immediately there were questions. Well, not to the glaze itself, but to its producer. It's not as dark as the real chocolate. In addition, a finding for the criminalist, for fingerprints remain very clearly, which is also not an indicator of quality.

Reaching the filling, we are surprised to find three-layered. Cognac (or vodka, difficult to disassemble) praline, burnt sugar and praline chocolate (in theory) taste. It is possible that in terms of production, such a filling is complicated, but do not bully twice as much because of the difficulties in manufacturing?

The only thing, except the wrapper, which can please, is the composition. Emulsifiers and flavors are, but there is not a single simply harmful or allergenic-carcinogenic "E".

Variety of factory products

As you can see, the assortment of sweets "Red October" is very large. Which is not surprising, because the craftsmanship and recipe have been honed for more than a century and a half. There are more than sixty kinds of chocolate sweets. Even for people with a penchant for religious posts, there are five kinds of lenten chocolates, among which are all the beloved "Truffles" and "Kara-Kum". A total of more than 250 kinds of various yummies are offered.

In addition to chocolate sweets and chocolate proper, it includes biscuits, marshmallows, marmalade, and halva, and in general a lot of oriental sweets. Could von Einem and Geiss imagine that after a century and a half a small production of four people will grow to a huge holding known to the whole world? Yes, in 1864 and 1865 the factory had bronze and silver medals of the All-Russian manufactory exhibitions, but subsequently the Grand Prix of the World and International exhibitions in Paris and Brussels, the Grand Prix "The Symbol of Russia" and the "People's Brand" were added.

Benefits

The company, which we discuss in detail today, despite the obvious disadvantages presented in this article, has a lot of experience, which makes really high-quality sweets that people like not only the Russian Federation, but also other countries.

In most kinds of sweets, there are no harmful carcinogens, which makes it possible to taste incredible tastes to everyone without fearing for their health. Believe me, the corporation deserves special attention. Workers try to present to customers chic sweets at a more or less normal price.

What in the end?

So, we discussed candies "Red October". Moscow, as the capital of our Motherland, has a greater potential in terms of producing various sweets. The oldest Russian confectionery company "Confectionery Concern Babaevsky" and the chocolate factory "Rot-Front" are also located in the capital. They enter, along with 16 more factories, in the holding company "United Confectioners", which exists since 2002.

Their only worthy competitor is the St. Petersburg Confectionary Factory named after Krupskaya, which has existed since 1938. And no matter how they advertise other manufacturers, no matter how beautiful boxes they produce, only the candy boxes of the Krupskaya factory, in the design of which the most prominent graphic designers took part, became the subject of collecting and stored in the State Russian Museum. And the quality of the products of St. Petersburg confectioners is often better, and the price is one and a half times lower. Why? Because "Red October" is a global brand, for which buyers pay.

The choice in any case is yours!